FRENCH INDOCHINA

are always a subject for merriment to the

arrived, and of humiliation to cavalry officers. Buffaloes and oxen

arc for labour. They are brought to Annam from Slam or

and a of poor farmers will often pool their resources

for a

The to Increasing animal husbandry, as an economic

are numerous and varied. Tiger raids have great importance,

in the underpopulated mountain regions during the winter

is scarce. Natives are unwilling to kill the tigers

turn to a diet of human flesh. Animal stealing, too, has

a well-organized industry* especially with the introduction

of French law. Napoleon could not be expected to have foreseen

the of such thievery in Indo-China. The greatest

of all is the prevalence of the epizootic, against which the

service has made but little headway. The Institut

has on problem, but as yet it is one of the most

in French agricultural effort. Very recently, in 1936,

the prohibited the importation of Indo-Chinese

of the outbreak of a cattle pest in Cambodia.

w the of Indo-China's mines, and one of the

resources. Coal, largely anthracite, is the most

tin form 96-5 per cent of the total

per of these mines are situated in Tonkin,

the of an dense population has marked for an

The deposits are along the Bay of Along,

ike proximity to deep-water ports.

}e» are zinc, lead, tin, and phosphate, with

iti! of and iron, Laos has almost all the tin,

the precious stones, and Cochin-Cfaina

mined from time imme-

and has for the modem prospector,

no by the French that were unknown

to 0f however, because of their

erf the of was one of the main

ef In In 1881 Le Myre de Vilers

the to French engineers to study the

he Japanese production.

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